Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, 570 Swallow them up.-Now, by yond' marble heaven,] In the due reverence of a sacred vow I here engage my words. lago. Do not rişe yet [He kneels. [IAGO kneels. Witness, you ever-burning lights above! To wrong'd Othello's service! let him command, What bloody work soever. Oth. I greet thy love, 580 Not with vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous, And will upon the instant put thee to't : Within these three days let me hear thee say, That Cassio's not alive. lago. My friend is dead; 'tis done, at your request: But let her live. Oth. Damn her, lewd minx! O, damn her! H 591 [Exeunt. SCENE SCENE IV. Another Apartment in the Castle. Enter DESDEMONA, EMILIA, and Clown. Des. Do you know, sirrah, where lieutenant Cassio lies? Clown. I dare not say, he lies any where. Des. Why, mán? 599 Clown. He is a soldier; and for me to say a soldier lies, is stabbing. Des. Go to; Where lodges he? Clown. To tell you where he lodges, is to tell where I lie. Des. Can any thing be made of this? you Clown. I know not where he lodges; and for me to devise a lodging, and say-he lies here, or he lies there, were to lie in mine own throat. Des. Can you inquire him out? and be edify'd by report ? 610 Clown. I will catechize the world for him; that is, make questions, and make them answer. Des. Seek him, bid him come hither: tell him, I have mov'd my lord in his behalf, and hope, all will be well. Clown. To do this, is within the compass of man's wit; and therefore I will attempt the doing of it. [Exit. Des. |